The ballot panel had final week recognised the Shinde faction as the unique Shiv Sena, permitting it to use the “bow and arrow” image in elections – virtually denying Uddhav Thackeray a declare on the social gathering his father, Bal Thackeray, based in 1966. Thereafter on February 18, Shewale had written to the Lok Sabha Secretariat searching for allotment of the office for the social gathering.
So far, each factions had been utilizing the Shiv Sena office in the Parliament House.